An ocean-mining company has funded some of the most comprehensive scientific studies to date, and peer-reviewed results have ...

Last May, the Japanese Minister of Agriculture resigned after commenting that he never bought rice because his supporters gave it to him. Taku Eto’s petulance wouldn’t have generated so much public ...

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ABSTRACT: Threats to economic security have surged, prompting nations to prioritize economic intelligence sharing. Ghana has grappled with economic security challenges from the post-2008 global ...

Canadian Natural Resources's profit logged a jump in earnings in the second quarter as higher sales volumes and realized natural gas prices in North America helped counter a fall in crude oil pricing.

Among ongoing efforts to rethink the basic tenets of mainstream economics is a provocative new book by James Galbraith and Jing Chen. The authors sweep aside the intellectual structure of mainstream ...

SHADE: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource. By Sam Bloch. Random House. 336 pages. $32. The cities of ancient Mesopotamia were oases for travelers trying to escape the sun’s heat. Urban shade ...

The cornerstones of our digital world—from smartphone apps to new digital assets and artificial intelligence tools—didn’t exist back in 2008, the last time the world’s statistical community overhauled ...

Federal and state environmental laws impose liability on responsible parties not only for the investigation and remediation of contamination caused by releases of hazardous substances, but also for ...

MESA COUNTY, Colo. (KREX) – The Trail Crew is a new team for the Mesa County Natural Resources Department. It was originally part of Mesa County Public Health, the move shows the team’s increasing ...

Black Bear Value Partners, an investment management firm, published its second-quarter 2025 investor letter. A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. Black Bear Value Fund returned -3.0% in June ...

The reason is that resource depletion and eco-system destruction are, in South Africa’s case, rarely compensated for properly. This general problem was one that Nobel Economic Laureate Robert Solow ...